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Check your PSU - I've had occasions when HDDs suffer from poor PSU design, and it can fry the controllers if you get a spike on the mains. Had two identical HP desktops, with different make HDDs and they both died shortly after a thunderstorm.

"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTonyAntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

An updated version says that "On a full 8 TByte disk, you can search forever". You can end up with an unbelievably large number of files on that large disks! Searching those directories can be inconveniently slow, and if you need to search files for contents, you might as well do some other task while you wait for the results.

I am in the lucky situation that most of my 26 TBytes is filled with huge video files, so the file count / directory size is moderate. And the files are not subject to contents searching. Actually, my 2 TByte text archive disk takes a lot more time to search than my 8 TByte video/sound disks, because the file count is five times higher.

My age is showing -
I started on 5 1/4 floppys, 'fixed' to use both sides. Then I bought a 5MB 14 inch platter drive from a surplused PDP-11 (and wrote all the Z80 code to run it with CP/M) - when I got down to about 250K I got a 20MB PC drive - got down to about 500K I got nervouse and bought something larger
I now have 5TB of SSD and a WD 16TB NAS with RAID5 and about 10TB Free. I am starting to worry about the next iteration up.

My take away: you always need 10% more than what you have.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long

I couldn't press the delete button either so went to wish.com and purchased some cheap 2tb usb sticks to use as a final resting place they are slow to work with but the are cheap and they store stuff that may be required some time.

"Last resting place" indeed - most of the cheap sticks / cards on Wish are fake: much smaller memory that misreports itself as far larger. Everything works when you write it, but when you try to read it back it's overwritten everything multiple times.

"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTonyAntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephantAnonymous-The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuineWinston Churchill, 1944-Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.Mark Twain

Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephantAnonymous-The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuineWinston Churchill, 1944-Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.Mark Twain

Being seriously visually handicapped, she was far more dependent on smell than most kids.

When she grew older and we got ourselves a dog, she used to walk him. We were always careful to pick up what he left behind. Once when it was getting dark, and she was wanted to take the dog out, I asked: Are you sure you can see his sh*t now at night? She answered as the most natural thing: But I smell it, daddy - that is no problem!